Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by lapcat on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:23PM (#32657630)

"Somewhat more aid per capita was also directed toward the Allied nations, with less for those that had been part of the Axis or remained neutral. The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total). The next highest contributions went to France" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hetman on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:14AM (#32658621)

The UK was already aligned with US ideology.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by lapcat on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:52AM (#32662034)

So was Russia, actually. Yeltsin went all-in on "shock therapy" and rapid privatization of the economy.

If anything, Yeltsin was too aligned with US capitalist ideology.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hetman on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:53PM (#32671746)

Capitalism isn't the entirety of US ideology, and I would hardly say Russia was aligned given how vastly different their outcomes were compared to other eastern European nations.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by kemiller on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:27PM (#32716134)

I think the point is that the UK only needed rebuilding, not fundamentally restructuring.

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